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OpenSSL x509 Purpose flag “Any Purpose” What is this?@Falcon - those documents are the immediate context for the certificate, and ultimately define how a human interprets it. There can be no "technical impact" other than "this flag is set" - human interpretation is all.

Securing SSH server against bruteforcing@Paul: I don't use te[l]net on this machine - keep it that way. While you want a telnet client around for various reasons, there's no reason to run a telnet server when you have ssh available. Plaintext passwords over the wire are bad.

Is TRIM possible on SSD disks in RAID 1?You could use software-RAID to ensure the SSDs see TRIM requests. This has the side-bonus of saving you the price of the card, which you could apply to "better" (or, more spare) SSDs.